Shiloh Cemetery Gate
by American Landscapes
Title
Shiloh Cemetery Gate
Artist
American Landscapes
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
In 1866, the War Department established a cemetery on the battlefield of Shiloh, in order to bury the dead not only from the April 6-7, 1862, battle of Shiloh but also from all the operations along the Tennessee River. Originally named “Pittsburg Landing National Cemetery," it was changed to “Shiloh National Cemetery” in 1889 and holds 3,584 Civil War dead, 2,359 of them unknown. Headboards first marked each grave, but were replaced in 1876 and 1877 by granite stones with tall stones marking the known and square, short stones denoting unknown soldiers. The stone wall around the cemetery was built in 1867, and these fashioned ornamental iron gates in 1911. Shiloh National Cemetery now holds deceased soldiers from later American wars with World War I and II, Korea, and Vietnam burials are in the newest section of the cemetery. Total interred in the cemetery now stands as 3,892. Although the cemetery was officially closed in 1984, it still averages two or three burials a year, mostly widows of soldiers already interred.
The most notable burials in Shiloh National Cemetery are two Confederates with pointed tombstones who died as prisoners of war; J.D. Putnam of the 14th Wisconsin, whose 1862 burial inscription on the foot of a tree, cut by his friends in the heat of battle, was still legible in 1901 and allowed the state of Wisconsin to undeniably determine the center of his regimental line which in turn determined where other regiments were so that their state regimental monuments could be placed accurately; all 6 members of the 16th Wisconsin color guard, drummer boy Henry Burke of the 58th Ohio Regiment, and American Revolutionary War soldier George Ross.
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